Statistical Terms Glossary

Are persons employed by a country other than their own for only part of a year because the work they perform depends on seasonal conditions. They are a subcategory of foreign migrant workers.

Products that are either not available on the market during certain seasons or periods of the year or are available throughout the year but with regular fluctuations in their quantities and prices that are linked to the season or time of the year.

Employment during a specified period of the year that is due to the seasonal nature of the work.

Issue of securities that have gained a reputation in the market for reliability.

Unit of measure representing the movement of one seat/authorized standing place available in a road vehicle when performing the service for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of seat available in a passenger aircraft when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of one seat available in a passenger railway vehicle when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measure representing the movement over one kilometre of one seat available in an inland waterways transport (IWT) passenger vessel when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measure representing the movement of one seat available in a passenger railway vehicle when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measurement representing the number of seats available or offered in a passenger means of transport and the distance to be travelled (in kilometres).

Education specifically targeted at individuals who, for a variety of reasons, never attended school or left school either before completion of the level of education in which they were enrolled or completed the level but wish to enter an education programme or occupation for which they are not yet qualified. Participants are often older than the typical target age group for the given ISCED level programme (but not necessarily adults). Sometimes also referred to as ‘bridging programmes’ or ‘re-integration programmes’.

See Used asset.

A degree awarded on the successful completion of an education programme at ISCED level 6 or 7 that requires prior successful completion of a programme at ISCED level 6 or 7 for entry into the respective education programme.

An industry or trade association fashions its own code of conduct and implements reporting mechanisms. This can be either voluntary or required for membership. Performance can be disclosed either for individual companies or for larger units of industry (e.g. type of product, country, global, etc.).

This Conference has the following objectives:
- Review of actions taken by Arab countries to reduce the digital divide in light of the outcome of the Geneva phase of WSIS;
- Adoption of a Regional Plan of Action, based on the Arab Strategy for Communications and Information, adopted by the Arab Summit in Amman (March 2001) and the global PoA adopted in the Geneva Summit;
- Active promotion of partnerships among the various stakeholders of the information society, including Government, private sector, non-governmental and international/regional organizations, in order to implement the Regional Plan of Action;
- Launching key regional projects that have the necessary funding and partnership to insure a high rate of success

1. Bank used as secondary source for funds. 2. Smaller lenders, i.e. banks other than the main commercial banks. Used particularly in Latin America.

A secondary activity is each separate activity that produces products eventually for third parties and that is not the principal activity of the unit in question. The outputs of secondary activities are secondary products. Most economic entities produce at least some secondary products.

Is an activity carried out within a single producer unit in addition to the principal activity and whose output, like that of the principal activity, must be suitable for delivery outside the producer unit.

Secondary air pollution is pollution caused by reactions in air already polluted by primary emissions (from factories, automobiles and so forth). An example of secondary air pollution is photochemical smog

Used in emergencies or domestic transport on which small aircrafts land and provides limited services

A crop succeeding one already harvested during a growing season; either a regrowth of the harvested.

The secondary distribution of income account shows how the balance of primary incomes of an institutional unit or sector is transformed into its disposable income by the receipt and payment of current transfers excluding social transfers in kind.

Secondary education provides learning and educational activities building on primary education and preparing for both first labour market entry as well as post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education. Broadly speaking, secondary education aims at learning at an intermediate level of complexity. ISCED distinguishes lower and upper secondary education.

Programmes at ISCED levels 2 and 3. Lower secondary education (ISCED 2) is generally designed to continue the basic programmes of the primary level but the teaching is typically more subject-focused, requiring more specialized teachers for each subject area. The end of this level often coincides with the end of compulsory education. In upper secondary education (ISCED 3), the final stage of secondary education in most countries, instruction is often organized even more along subject lines and teachers typically need a higher or more subject-specific qualification than at ISCED level 2.

See Exchange rates